Gates celebrates Trustworthy Computing in e-mail
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Microsoft has come far to deliver on its "Trustworthy Computing" promise, but more needs to be done, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said in an e-mail late Thursday. "While we've accomplished a lot in the past year, there is still more to do -- at Microsoft and across our industry," Gates said in the e-mail sent to a mailing list that is part of a Microsoft marketing effort called Executive E-mail.
The e-mail comes a year after Gates announced the Trustworthy Computing initiative, a Microsoft-wide focus on securing its products. As part of that initiative, Microsoft halted the development work of thousands of software engineers for 10 weeks to train them to look at software like hackers do. This resulted in the in-house discovery of many security bugs, Gates said.